Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 19 June 2010 18:06:58 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>    
>> David W Noon<dwnoon@ntlworld.com>  [10-06-19 18:00]:
>>      
>>> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:00:02 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about Re:
>>>
>>> [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12:
>>>        
>>>> walt<w41ter@gmail.com>  [10-06-19 16:48]:
>>>>          
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>        
>>>>> Have you set eselect python to use python-3 instead of python-2?  If
>>>>> so,
>>>>> try setting it back to python-2.
>>>>>            
>>>> No, python 2.6 ist set according to the output of
>>>>
>>>>     eselect python list
>>>>
>>>> python 3.1 is installed but not selected.
>>>>
>>>> What else can produce this compilation error?
>>>>          
>>> Have you run python-updater?
>>>
>>> When new packages have Python components, they will build both 2.6 and
>>> 3.1 modules if possible.  This means that their dependencies also need
>>> to have both 2.6 and 3.1 modules.  You achieve this by running
>>> python-updater; this can take several hours.
>>>        
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> wait...hopefully I understand this correctly, before I start to screw
>> up my newly installed system...
>>
>> State 1 right after installing Gentoo: Pyton2.6 selected, installed
>> and up.
>> State 2 some days later while upateing python3.1 was offered but
>> should *not* eselect python 3.1 since some older package are still
>> not updated to work correctly with 3.1
>> State 3 setuptools seems to try to compile against 3.1 and failed.
>>
>> Now I should run python-updater to ... (scratching my head)?
>> To update to python 3.1..but setuptools failed while compiling
>> against python 3.1
>>
>> It seems I myself feel a little screwed up,,, ;)
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> mcc
>>      
> Did you miss the significance of this part?
>
> "This means that their dependencies also need to have both 2.6 and 3.1
> modules.  You achieve this by running python-updater; this can take several
> hours."
>
>    

Or if he doesn't really need python 3, he can just mask the thing until 
he does need it.  Of course, he may have to run python-updater again or 
rebuild the same packages again to get them to not use python 3.

Yep, making this stable hasn't confused anyone yet.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-)